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Friday, November 6, 2015

Facing your fears makes you courageous

Guts and glory are mere perceptions. The reality is in experiences and in learning from them. It’s
through the experiencing and the learning that the soul is enriched.

When we watch a movie and admire a hero for
the way he or she has fought for justice, against perpetrators of evil or crime
or injustice, we come back feeling good. We loved the movie. But we don’t
really think any of it is real. Because it’s just a story enacted for our
entertainment. In real Life when we meet the actor, we do say we admire him or
her and their ‘acting’. We know little about who they really are for us to be
able to see the person behind the actor.

So it is with real Life heroism. Often
people look at others around them and call them courageous and celebrate their
valor or the stance they have taken in Life on fighting injustice or simply
meeting a challenge head on. Someone who has found a deadly disease like cancer
is often seen as a champion. Someone who has lived on despite the passing away
of a loved one is believed to be very bold. Someone who fights injustice is
seen as a ‘fearless’ crusader. And someone who refuses to run away from a
seemingly impossible situation is believed to be incredibly resilient.

To be sure, everyone who has ever lived has
had to encounter fear. Fear spares no one. Interestingly though all of us have
the ability to be courageous. Because courage is not the absence of fear.
Courage is what fear delivers when you face up to the fear. Because only when
you face up to something, will you realize that it cannot harm you. Only what
you run away from chases you, haunts you.

In a health challenge like cancer, you can
feel fearful of death. But as long as you run scared of death, it will torment
you. But the moment you discover that death is a non-negotiable eventuality
that all of us who are born have to confront, you will no longer fear death.
Then you start living. And despite your speeding to death, owing to your
personal situation, you begin to feel blessed that at least you reasonably know
how much time you have left to live. And you start investing in the living than
obsess with the dying. Fear of death has delivered to you the
ability__courage__to live simply because you stopped running away from death.

This is true with every Life situation. The
more you run away from a problem, the more fearful you will be. When you face
it, the problem, even if it doesn’t go away, will at least stop tormenting you.
So, face your fears. It is from facing them that you become
courageous!